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The DELF B1 is an official exam given by the French Ministry of Education. DELF
stands for Diplôme d’Études en Langue Française. It officially certifies your level of
language proficiency. At the level B1, you should be able to plan an outing, ask for
information and seek clarification in different contexts, talk about your interests and
hobbies and express your opinions clearly.
CONTEXT
Social interactions
Exchanging information
• Seek information
• Provide information
• Explain how to use a device
• Ask for / give an explanation, details
• Conduct or participate in an interview
• Rephrase what you said to offer clarity
• Express a supposition
• Summarise a short story, an article, a presentation, an interview, a
documentary and give an opinion.
Other concepts
• Express an obligation
• Convey hesitation
• Communicate regret
• Talk about possibility and probability
• Express certainty , doubt
CONVERSATION/ PRESENTATION
Interaction
• Introduce a topic
• Organise your speech (introduction, development, examples, conclusion)
• Explain
• Anaphoric references
• Summarise
• Conclude
Advance a discussion by inviting others to join in
FORMAL SITUATIONS
• Basic expressions and essentials of a telephone conversation
• Discuss money
• Standard formal, business letter
• How to present in a meeting
• Rules of written communication
• Formal speech, how to address people in a business context
GRAMMAR
Tenses
Interrogatives
Negation
• Infinitif passé
• Impératif
The conditional
Subjonctif
Passive voice
Participles
• Gerund
• Participe passé and its usage (COD, or relative with the auxiliary ” avoir “)
Indirect speech
• Prepositional verbs
Hypothesis
• Certain hypotheses
• Uncertain hypotheses
Nominalisation
Articles
Adjectives
• Indefinite adjectives
• Adjectives accompanied by prepositions (être heureux de, sûr de, confiant en,
remarquable par)
• Comparison
• Superlative
• Adverbs
• Adverbs of manner
Pronouns
Logical relations
Connectors
VOCABULARY TOPICS
• Customs, cultural traditions
• Professional sphere
• Family, social relationships
• People: physical description, character, personality
• Feelings and emotions
• Health
• Daily activities
• Leisure, sports
• Holidays, travel
• Housing: furnishing and devices
• Consumption: food, beverage, media
• Fashion
• Cultural topics: cinema, literature, painting, music, théâtre
• Media and news
• Information and communication technologies
• Environment, climate, ecology
• The education system, studies, technical training
• Politics, societal values